"Fomentation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flinching on pressure to the coronet, no shrinkage or wiring in of the heels, neither is the characteristic pointing of navicular present. In the early stages one has false hopes of recovery by finding gradual improvement for a time by fomentation and poultices, followed by irrigation and stimulants to the coronet, and perhaps the animal is discharged from hospital, to be returned after a few days worse than ever. The disease then becomes insidious and more pronounced, the nodding of the head, even at a walk, more exaggerated, and, in ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks
... water bags or any hot fomentation {369} is removed, replace dry flannel and bathe parts in tepid water and rub ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints; but, to my surprize, it appeared rosy and florid, and its consistency differed little from the blood of those in perfect health. I then applied a fomentation to the part, which highly answered the intention; and after three or four times dressing, the wound began to discharge a thick pus or matter, by which means the cohesion—But perhaps I do not make myself perfectly well understood?"—"No, really," answered the ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... leaves is an antidote for the Datura (Stramonium). In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania. ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... brass and gold, that has removed fevers from the ailing body of the owner, or cares from his mind. The possessor must be healthy, if he thinks to make good use of his realised wealth. To him who is covetous or timorous his house and estate are as a picture to a blind man, or a fomentation to a gouty."—Horace, Ep., ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne |
